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Originally Posted by trebor8273 
We follow a young Billy the kid and the regulators played by the rest of the rat pack who seek revenge for Terrance Stamp a farther figure for the boys who is brutally murdered by Jack Parlance and his goons.
I found this quite slow and dull and Billy being a boarder line sociopath didn't help.
Might watch young guns two later.
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I really like
Young Guns.
It has an authenticity of the real west. Ramshackle saloons, dirty dressed people, that sort of thing with some genuinely nasty moments such as the gunning down of Stamp's Tunstall. A man who tries to improve his bratty young ranch hands through etiquette and reading poetry as well as sheer hard work. But despite all this when they are deputised it simply turns them into killers on the loose rather then actual deputies of the law and you know from the outset that our 'heroes' will be dead long before they become men. The quiet moments such as round the dinner table and Doc falling in love are what holds the film together and give it heart. We know Billy will turn into a renegade murderer but it's nice to see that when it comes to catching a pig he just ends up covered in shit as you or i would.
It's also a terrific young cast held together with a couple of western legends. At the time it was seen as a kind of 'Brat pack' western akin to
The Lost Boys with it's young cast but i actually think it's so much more than that.
Young Guns II is a more fun film in a way. Perhaps helped by the excellent
Blaze of Glory soundtrack album from
Jon Bon Jovi which was huge at the time. Maybe you'll like that more.
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